FLOAT 100 · Art · No. 89
Eroded Porsche 911 Turbo (930) (White)
Daniel Arsham imagined a 1986 Porsche dug up centuries from now, cracked open and sprouting crystals, then made 500 of them small enough to hold in two gloved hands.
- Year
- 2020
- Maker
- Daniel Arsham
- By price in art
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- Daniel Arsham (born 1980, Cleveland)
- Title
- Eroded Porsche 911 Turbo (930), White
- Released
- September 25, 2020
- Edition
- 500
- Materials
- Cast form with selenite and quartz specimens
- Size
- About 8 x 13 x 29 cm (3 1/4 x 5 1/4 x 11 1/2 in); announced as 12.2 in long
- Weight
- Just under 7 pounds
- Model car
- 1986 Porsche 911 Turbo 3.3 (930)
- Series
- Future Relic
A sports car from the future's past
In September 2020 Daniel Arsham unveiled a road-going white Porsche, the 930A, built over two years from a 1986 930 Turbo donor car in collaboration with the German maker. The engine and transmission were removed and rebuilt, and the livery was hand painted. Days later he announced a sculpture edition based on the same car.
The Eroded 911 Turbo is a scale model of the 1986 911 Turbo (930) shown as if it had been excavated far in the future: parts of the body are broken away, and the cavities are filled with crystal. It extends Arsham's Future Relic series, which imagines everyday objects of our time decaying into archaeological finds.
The edition went on sale on September 25, 2020, through the artist's online shop. Each piece was limited to an edition of 500, measured 12.2 inches long, weighed just under seven pounds, and came in studio-designed packaging with die-cut foam, a sealing label and a pair of white art-handling gloves.
Daniel Arsham
Arsham was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 8, 1980, and raised in Miami. He was 12 when Hurricane Andrew destroyed his childhood home, an event that has remained a theme in his work. He attended the Design and Architecture High School in Miami and won a full scholarship to The Cooper Union in New York.
After school he co-founded an exhibition space in Miami called The House, where he met the Paris dealer who began representing him by 2005. He designed sets, lighting and costumes for Merce Cunningham's eyeSpace, which premiered in 2007, and in the same year founded the architecture and design studio Snarkitecture with Alex Mustonen.
In 2014 he set up Films of the Future, whose debut series, Future Relic, is nine short films about a civilization before and after major ecological change. The series also includes sculptures of petrified 20th-century objects built to look like artifacts decaying from obsolescence. Cars, cameras and other icons of the recent past cast as fossils became his signature, and he has carried them into collaborations with Dior, Adidas, Rimowa, Tiffany and Porsche.
Released in a pandemic year
The edition arrived in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Health Organization had declared a public health emergency in January 2020, global markets crashed in March, and confirmed cases passed 50 million worldwide in November, the same month Pfizer and BioNTech reported a vaccine 95 percent effective in trials.
Arsham's 2020 was a year of large collaborations. He had designed the runway set, ad campaigns and a Future Relics capsule for Dior's Spring/Summer 2020 menswear season, and the white 930A road car was unveiled in September..
How to identify it
Auction catalogue entries describe the white edition as selenite and quartz specimens set into the eroded body, about 8 by 13 by 29 centimeters. The underside carries an impressed signature, title and inscription reading 'Daniel Arsham 1986 Porsche 911 Turbo 3.3 (930) Prod. of Arsham Studio'.
The number is not on the sculpture itself but on a decal label on the box, reading 'Certified Archive Edition' with the number out of 500. The release announcement describes an Arsham Editions holographic label verifying edition number and authenticity. The original box, foam and gloves are part of a complete example, and catalogue entries note when they are present.
This page's item record describes the material as Hydrostone with selenite and quartz. The auction entries found describe it only as selenite and quartz specimens, and the release announcement does not name the casting material, so this page does not confirm Hydrostone.
On the market
With 500 examples, the white Eroded 911 Turbo turns up at auction often. Edition number 377 was offered in Los Angeles on March 23, 2023, with an estimate of $2,000 to $3,000 and appears not to have sold that day. It returned a month later and on April 26, 2023, sold in Los Angeles for $2,394 with fees against the same estimate.
Prices have also been set outside the salesroom. On May 30, 2025, edition number 224 sold in a no-reserve online auction for $1,700 after a late run of bids from $1,675.
The numbers
- Edition size
- 500
- Dimensions
- About 8 x 13 x 29 cm
- Materials
- Selenite and quartz specimens in an eroded cast car body
- Release
- September 25, 2020, artist's online shop
- Markings
- Impressed signature and inscription underneath; numbered box decal
Timeline
Daniel Arsham is born in Cleveland, Ohio.
The model year of the Porsche 911 Turbo (930) that the sculpture depicts.
Hurricane Andrew destroys Arsham's childhood home in Miami.
Arsham co-founds Snarkitecture; Merce Cunningham's eyeSpace premieres with his design.
Arsham founds Films of the Future and begins the Future Relic series.
Arsham unveils his 930A road car, rebuilt from a 1986 930 Turbo with Porsche.
The Eroded 911 Turbo sculpture edition of 500 goes on sale online.
Edition 377/500 is offered at auction in Los Angeles.
Edition 377/500 sells at auction in Los Angeles for $2,394.
Edition 224/500 sells in a no-reserve online auction for $1,700.
The world in 2020
The WHO declares COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern.
Global stock markets crash; the Dow loses more than 2,300 points in a day.
Japan declares a state of emergency over COVID-19.
NASA launches its Mars 2020 rover mission.
Confirmed COVID-19 cases pass 50 million worldwide.
Pfizer and BioNTech complete trials of a vaccine 95 percent effective.
Price record
| Date | Price | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 2023 | $2,394 | Sold at auctionEdition 377/500, sold at auction in Los Angeles with original packaging and gloves; estimate $2,000 to $3,000. |
| May 30, 2025 | $1,700 | Sold at auctionEdition 224/500, no-reserve online auction. |
A realized auction price is what a buyer actually paid on the date shown, including the buyer's premium where the sale reported it. It is the strongest kind of reference price, and it is a record of one sale of one object on one day, not a promise of what the next example will bring.
By reference price, Eroded Porsche 911 Turbo (930) (White) is number 90 of 100 in the art entries of the FLOAT 100. 88 of those 100 rest on a realized sale; the rest carry an asking price or a guide value, and each page says which. Rank within the FLOAT 100 itself (89 here) is editorial: how much an object defines its field, not price alone.
Did you know
- The edition is numbered on the box, not on the sculpture.
- Each example shipped with a pair of white art-handling gloves.
- The full-size 930A road car that inspired the edition took two years to build, and its hand-painted livery nods to a 1980 Porsche 935 K3 race car.
- Arsham was the last artist to collaborate with Merce Cunningham before the choreographer's death in 2009.
- Arsham traces his fascination with ruins to Hurricane Andrew, which destroyed his family's home when he was 12.
How this page is made
- The figure
- One reference price, shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. An asking price, an estimate and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- The story
- Researched from published records and checked fact by fact. Updated Oct 3, 2026.
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